TAMPA — Just last year, Gary Baumgarten was enjoying his Single, Liberated and Loving It Study Bible. He belonged to a terrific church singles group and “life was starting to get good,” he says. But before he could read through the Bible, his “life mood” changed and now he is hunting for a Single, Lonely and Depressed Study Bible to finish out the year.

Baumgarten says it was a great year until several fellow singles got married and others moved away. Now Baumgarten is bouncing around churches looking for the right blend of friends, and he’s not sure he’ll ever find “that special mix” again.

That makes finding his preferred study Bible all the more critical.

“I know there are plenty of single, lonely and depressed people in the Bible, and those passages would cheer me in my current circumstance,” he says. •